Paris — Oil pastel & oil stick on paper
I paint Black
people green.
Because green is the colour they chose for themselves — and no one can take it back.
Originals — available works View all
Oil pastel.
Real paper.
A specific argument.
I'm Alexandre Desane, painter based in Paris. My figures have no faces and green skin — not as abstraction, but as a position. Green carries what black never could as a word: regeneration, power, the hand that grows back.
nopaintbrush.com is where you buy the work directly. Major works and institutional documentation live on adesane.com.
About the practice